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Southwest Research Institute successfully demonstrated a miniature solar observatory on a high-altitude balloon November 1. The SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform (SSIPP)—a reusable, high-precision solar observatory about the size of a mini fridge and weighing 160 pounds—was … | Continue reading
On your iOS device, open the Shortcuts application. (Or download and open the app if you don't already have it.) Then click the + sign in the upper right to create a new project. | Continue reading
A tumour affecting mussels in Chile and France is traced to a single Northern Hemisphere mussel of a separate species. | Continue reading
Deadspin and Splinter were only the most recent victims of a culling that began many years ago. | Continue reading
Stem cells all share the potential of developing into any specific cell in the body. Many researchers are therefore trying to answer the fundamental questions of what determines the cells' developmental fate as well as when and why the cells lose the potential of developing into … | Continue reading
Phil Christman in The Hedgehog Review: I watch bad movies, a pastime and a passion I have long shared with my father. When I was a child, we would sit on one of a series of couches scavenged from yard sales or curbsides, eating microwave popcorn while watching, say, Teenagers fro … | Continue reading
Scientists say a failure of national management means excessive amounts of harmful chemicals—many now banned in other countries such as the EU, U.S. and Canada—are damaging the nation's waterways and the Great Barrier Reef. | Continue reading
A research group including researchers from the Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) in National Institutes of Natural Sciences, and Osaka University have revealed the detailed mechanism of the biosynthesis of car … | Continue reading
What explains the popularity of terminals with 80×24 and 80×25 displays? A recent blog post " 80x25 " motivated me to investigate this. The ... | Continue reading
The Colorado aerospace industry is adapting to a talent shortage by figuring out new ways to keep the future workforce interested in the space side of STEM. | Continue reading
Coherent control is a method to manipulate the populations and pathways in matter by light, and is currently one of the most attractive research areas in optical physics and photochemistry. Lasers have been considered as unique light sources enabling one to perform coherent contr … | Continue reading
Uber said it "will likely" have to strike a licensing deal with Waymo ... | Continue reading
One of the best new features in [iPadOS]( has been the addition of the Today View on the iPad Home Screen. There are a few reasons I like it. For one, it just looks better than the plain grid of ic… | Continue reading
Forensic anthropologists have now discovered that several skull features in Asian and Asian-derived groups differ significantly with regard to shape, such that they can be distinguished using statistical analyses. These findings highlight the future potential for developing more … | Continue reading
An incredible 80 percent of the Louvre's 10 million yearly visitors find their way to the Salle des États to catch a glimpse of | Continue reading
This easy mushroom gravy has a rich, deep flavor from sauteed onions, garlic, and mushrooms combined with beef stock and seasoning. | Continue reading
"Buildings are bad for the climate," Gates says. "Here's what we can do about it." | Continue reading
An estimated 45 million people are threatened with hunger due to a severe drought that is strangling wide stretches of southern Africa. | Continue reading
More than a third of San Franciscans can't see themselves staying in San Francisco much longer, according to none other than the city itself. The survey, conducted by San Francisco's Office of the Controller, found that 35% of respondents were either "very likely" or "somewhat l … | Continue reading
How digitization of processes is helping with the fight against corruption in Kenya. | Continue reading
Part of my job as a part-time CFO is to make sure my clients aren’t overspending. Some of my clients are incredibly lean already, but… | Continue reading
Life of a software expert witness: I carefully arranged my calendar this fall so as to be available at four scheduled trials. Trial 1: moved to April 2020Trial 2: settled two weeks priorTrial 3: ca… | Continue reading
An anti-hate speech law written in Berlin has been copy-pasted by authoritarian regimes from Caracas to Moscow. | Continue reading
A Google research team recently published the paper Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer… | Continue reading
Michael E. Mann examines Naomi Klein’s collection on the proposed US policy aiming to curb climate change. | Continue reading
Federal agents raided a Long Island tech firm early Thursday and arrested its top executives amid concerns the company was selling Chinese-made equipment to the U.S. military while claiming it had been... | Continue reading
Honoring the companies we missed. | Continue reading
Robots are coming to the massive ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, replacing dockworker jobs. But truckers are delighted, since they'll be able to move cargo faster, earning more money. | Continue reading
New research suggests that moral grandstanding may be a major source of conflict in the world today | Continue reading
Temporal and Spatial Hardware Architectures | Continue reading
e all love a good hero story: Spiderman swooping in to save the day and the girl; Batman brooding towards a better tomorrow; The Avengers joining forces to save the planet. In journalism, we often profile admirable people who have hero-like qualities: leaders who risk all to forg … | Continue reading
Laura Spinney in Slate: In 1882, linguists were electrified by the publication of a lost language—one supposedly spoken by the extinct Taensa people of Louisiana—because it bore hardly any relation to the languages of other Native American peoples of that region. The Taensa gramm … | Continue reading
A new Scream movie is reportedly in the works at Spyglass Entertainment. | Continue reading
Yesterday I was searching for “UniFi Cloud Hosting” on Google as I do occasionally to check the organic ranking for https://hostifi.net… | Continue reading
Liam Murphy in the Boston Review: The crowd at Elizabeth Warren’s rally in New York City in September was enthusiastic throughout, but it was her proposed new wealth tax—2 percent on wealth above $50 million, rising to 3 percent above $1 billion—that got them chanting: “Two cents … | Continue reading
Whether your utility is planning outages to prevent wildfires or you’re preparing for other blackout scenarios, here’s the best gear for backup power and lighting. | Continue reading
In this blog post series we are going to explore and share with you some issues that we experienced while building Aragon Network's Court smart contracts. | Continue reading